president donald trump and his french counterpart emanuel marchand at the nato meeting in london on tuesday trump sharply rebuked mccraw for saying in an interview with the magazine the economist last month that quote what we are currently experiencing is the brain death of nato. it's a very tough statement to make when you have such difficulty in the british you look at what's happened with the press you look at what's going on during certain parts of this exhibit here are the year and you just can't go around making statements like that. it's very disrespectful. micron however did not back down. use of my statement we saw the actions shake a little be a lot of people have done. the 2 leaders seem to have differing visions of the role of nato what do you believe they don't want to write and frankly one of the benefits really the least is the united states would benefit the way we're helping your. what. if not. another of the alliances big players german chancellor angela merkel remain upbeat about nato with all of the differences but of course we'll have to discuss them we have to talk abo